Our Partners
TimeWave reverses the blueprint for international events. By using technology, new work by remote artists can be livestreamed into a central location. While London-based and Internet audiences can travel around the world and never leave their seats, artists can collaborate across borders and yet work in their distinctive locales.
The mechanism to realize the vision of TimeWave is a web of partnerships, or the connective tissue that drives the Internet and the 21st century. Over the next few months, we will be forging partnerships with other groups and institutions. Please check this page for updates.
London, UK: Innovation Warehouse
Innovation Warehouse (IW) was formed by a group of seasoned entrepreneurs in collaboration with the City of London Corporation. Located in East London's Tech City, Innovation Warehouse provides a runway that helps startup businesses achieve sustainable growth. It functions as a combination of micro-lending facility, experiential business school, R&D; department, and angel investor, in an open and buzzing environment. Published in 2007, The Race to the Top - A Review of Government's Science and Innovation Policies put forth the initiative "Connect" for assisting high-growth startups. Lord Sainsbury commended this initiative to Regional Development Agencies as a component of their Business Support programme. While Innovation Warehouse builds on the Connect model, it has also introduced differentiators that target sustainability, resilience and commercialization.
New York City, New York USA: Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Since its founding in 1949, the school has trained thousands of actors many of whom have gone on to important theater and film careers. Its roots, however, go back even farther, to Jacob P. Adler, one of the great actors of the American Yiddish Theater, and also include Harold Clurman, Stella's second husband and co-founder of the Group Theater. In 1969, The Stella Adler Studio became the first professional actor training school to become affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The spirit that has animated the Adler family for over one hundred years stems from the insight that growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous.
The scope of the school's current activities can be summarized in three categories: 1) Professional Actor Training, the core activity of the Studio; 2) The Stella Adler Outreach Division, which provides free acting classes to low income inner city teenagers and 3) The Harold Clurman Art Series which presents cultural events that are free and open to the public. Recent participants in the arts series include Julianne Moore, Harold Mabern, Harold Bloom, John Patrick Shanley, Mark Strand and David Amram.
The Stella Adler Studio upholds a unique focus in American actor training. Like Jacob, Stella and Harold, the studio affirms that the primary function of theater is to uplift humanity. A successful student for Stella is not necessarily one who becomes famous or rich, but one who connects to their deeper self and to our shared humanity. The school is a cultural center determined to train actors and support artists not despite, but in the face of a world in crisis. Programs like the Outreach Division help to create an environment for all students to become actors like Stella and those in the Group Theater: actors who are socially and consciously aware and whose awareness contributes to their ability to act passionately.
Los Angeles, California USA: Needtheater
Founded in 2006, Needtheater is a Los Angeles-based company dedicated to producing socially relevant and viscerally entertaining theater for a progressive audience. Past productions include 2008's award-winning Fatboy and 2009's Mercury Fur, Philip Ridley's controversial and critically-praised depiction of a post-apocalyptic London which Variety called "unforgettable" and "masterfully orchestrated," as well as work from writers like Lucy Thurber, Dan Dietz, and Naomi Wallace. Needtheater is also committed to introducing new work and new voices to the theatrical community. 2010 saw the company's world premiere production of Michael John Garces' spy thriller The Web as well as The First Lady, a world premiere opera about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt co-produced by UCLA. In 2011, Needtheater premiered the grad-night epic Guided Consideration of a Lamentable Deed by Frank Basloe as well as G.O.Ne, an adaptation of a short story by the iconic writer David Foster Wallace. Looking forward, Needtheater has focused its attentions on helping to bring our art form into the 21st century through the use of technology and through an awareness and a renewed emphasis on that which makes theater a unique, narrative experience: its liveness.
Madrid, Spain: Nave 73
Nave 73 is born as a multicultural creative laboratory where innovation and Theater are the central pillars but not the only ones. Our philosophy is to create a versatile space that embraces cultural, social and communication activities, providing a meeting point between different areas to offer a comprehensive solution to the sector's needs.